INTRODUCTION TO TERADATA & HISTORY


What is TERADATA ?

• The Teradata Database is a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS).

• It is deigned to run the world’s largest commercial databases and preferred solution for        Enterprise Data Warehousing.

• Teradata executes on Linux, Unix and Windows 2000 operating systems.

• Compliant with ANSI industry standards.

• It Runs on a single / Multiple nodes and uses parallelism to manage “petabytes” of data.

• Capable of supporting many concurrent users from various client platform (over a TCP/IP or IBM channel connection).



TERADATA – A BRIEF HISTORY

• TERADATA was founded in 1979 in Brentwood, CA by Dr. Jack E. Shemer, Dr. Philip M.  Neches, Walter E. Muir, Jerold R. Modes, William P. Worth, and Carroll Reed.

• 1983: First beta system shipped to Wells Fargo Bank.

• 1984: Teradata releases the world's first parallel data warehouses and data marts.

• 1992: Teradata creates the first system over 1 terabyte, which goes live at Wal-Mart.

• 2013: Teradata is named a leader in Gartner's Data Warehouse.



DESIGNED FOR TODAY’S BUSINESS

• Teradata provides enormous capacity – Billions of rows, terabytes of data.

• High performance parallel processing.

• Single data store with multiple client applications making inquiries against it concurrently.

• Network and mainframe connectivity.

• Linear scalability to support more users/data/queries/complexity of queries without  experiencing performance degradation.

• Fault tolerance at all level of hardware and software.


• Data integrity and reliability.